 Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise...  Macmillan's Magazine - Seite 2231865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 540 Seiten
...the Constitution or in any statute ; but he thought out what were satisfying reasons to his own mind. "My oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability," he wrote afterwards, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 532 Seiten
...the Constitution or in any statute ; but he thought out what were satisfying reasons to his own mind. "My oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability," he wrote afterwards, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 464 Seiten
...conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act upon this judgment and feeling. ... I did understand that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability implied in me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government and that nation of... | |
 | Emerson David Fite - 1919 - 1164 Seiten
...understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet ^8^- ';!' ^^'. Vk... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - 1922 - 1036 Seiten
...letter to Mr. Hodges (April 4, 1864), in which he said: "My oath to preservo the constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the Constitution is the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution?... | |
 | Arthur Benton Mavity, Nancy Barr Mavity - 1923 - 444 Seiten
...them of the charges against them or giving them a hearing. He defended himself in these words: "I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1926 - 544 Seiten
...I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed V upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of... | |
 | Leon Whipple - 1927 - 384 Seiten
...what Lincoln said of his policy: April 4, 1864. . . . My oath to preserve the Constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?... | |
 | Richard F. Haynes - 1999 - 372 Seiten
...Finally, in an explicit statement on his concept of his role, Lincoln wrote: "I did understand . . . that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best...— of which that constitution was the organic law. ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable... | |
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